"Ted Jones, in his encyclopedic The Thalamus (1985, p. 27), wrote that this is one of the best descriptive accounts of the thalamus, illustrated with photographic plates as elegant as any being produced today, with subdivisions essentially the same as those now used, although the terminology was somewhat clumsy and based on that introduced by von Monakow in 1895. Vogt’s parceling of the thalamus into some 40 subdivisions was greeted quite skeptically by the great Ludwig Edinger and others who could barely imagine this type of differentiation in a structure they thought of as acting holistically" (Larry W. Swanson).